The Dominique Cosmetics focus is to make no-fuss products that are easy to use and multi-purpose. New, The Essential Palette from Dominique Cosmetics was created to become a Core Palette, a mainstay, for the brand. The Ten Shade Essential Palette is a multipurpose, all in one palette, that has a great variety of shades. These are the kind of shades you’ll reach for everyday. The shades are multipurpose, to cover all of your needs: blush, bronzer, contour, highlighter , under eye brightener, and an eyeliner. You can do it all ! You will love the sparkling shimmer and buttery matte finishes of the warm and deep toned, mauvey neutral shades. The Dominique Cosmetics Core Essential Palette is versatile so you can create looks for day and night.
You can purchase the Dominique Essential Palette on the Dominique Cosmetics Website. The Essential Palette (10x 1.06 g/ 0.04 oz.) costs $49.
The Essential Palette Packaging is new. According to the brand, this packaging will continue to be used in future palettes from here on in. 
The outer box is mauvey neutral . 
If you look inside the box, the inspirational message “Beauty Inside & Out,” is written all over the inside of the box. The Palette case matches the cover of the box, and is made with clear, see through plastic. Also, the palette has a magnetic closure, 
There is a full-sized mirror underneath the lid. The ten pans with the shades are in two horizontal rows of five pans each row. 
The one thing that is missing on the packaging is a recycling symbol. That doesn’t necessarily mean the packaging can’t be recycled. However, if the brand is going to be transparent about their cruelty-free ingredients, they should be transparent on their efforts to be eco-friendly and sustainable with their packaging.
The Formula is Cruelty Free, Vegan, and Paraben Free. The matte shades are smooth and buttery. The shimmer shades are reflective. The shimmer and matte shades are easy to use, and all of the shades are multi-use, and versatile. The shades are soft, easy to blend, and give you an airbrushed look.
The Shades and How to Use Them
Row 1 Across (Left to Right)
Grateful, Pretty Kind, Que Linda, Affirmation, Confident
Grateful
Grateful, a mauve shade, has a shimmery finish. This is a great color to highlight the high point of your face, your brow bones, down the center of your nose, your Cupid’s bow, and your upper cheek bones. Use the mauve shimmer as a topper on top of another eyeshadow to add more dimension.
Pretty Kind
Pretty KInd, a rose gold shade, has a shimmery finish. Use Pretty Kind to highlight the high points of your face. Use the rose gold shimmer as an eyeshadow topper.
Que Linda
Que Linda, an iridescent gold shade with a pink shift , has a shimmery finish. Use The iridescent gold shimmer as an eyeshadow topper., or wear it to highlight the high points of your face. I love it as an eyeshadow.
Affirmation
Affirmation, a copper shade, has a foil finish. Wear the copper foil as a highlighter on the high points of your face. Also wear the copper shade on the center of your eyes. This intense dab of copper foil will make your eyes pop.
Confident
Confident, a red-brown shade, has a satin finish. Use Confident to contour your eyes, in your crease,and on the outer corners and outer Vof your eyes. Confident brings shine to your face. It is an everyday shade.
Row 2 Across (Left to Right)
Me Amo, Compassion, Positivity, True Self, Fearless
Me Amo
Me Amo, a mauve shade, has a matte finish. Wear Me Amo as a blush, or an eyeshadow.
Compassion
Compassion, a deep peach shade, has a matte finish. Wear the deep peach matte shade as a blush, or as an eyeshadow.
Positivity
Positivity, a light peach shade, has a matte finish. Wear this light peach matte shade as an under eye brightener, on the inner corners of your eyes, and on your brow bones.
True Self
True Self, a medium brown shade, has a matte finish. Wear this medium brown matte shade to contour your eyes, in your crease, and outer corners, and cheeks, or to add bronze to your skin. If your eyebrows are brown, wear this shade to fill in your brows.
Fearless
Fearless, a soft black shade, has a matte finish. The soft black matte shade is the perfect eyeliner. If your brows are dark, use the shade to fill them in.
The ten shades may look like eyeshadows, and some of them are, or can be used as eye shadows. Even more, the shades are multipurpose. Use the palette to blush, contour, highlight, bronze, define, brighten and line your eyes, as well as to make your eyes pop and sparkle! It’s a one and done palette. Great for travel. Because it is so versatile, the palette would make an amazing holiday gift.
